The Book of Appreciation

In the parking lot, the young man watched the two leave before returning to the passenger seat.

"That military adviser is indeed a master, but he just glanced at it casually, and it actually gave me a feeling of being seen through."

The young man took out a cigarette, took a sip, and turned to the big man beside him.If Wu Di and the others were present, they would definitely be surprised, because he spoke standard Japanese.

The big man who had been listening to the music took off his earphones, shook his head, and spewed out fluent Japanese,

"Don't you see that I don't even dare to turn my head? Damn, the plan of the tyrannosaur is really superfluous! This kid knows nothing about our existence, and it's over if he hides away from a bullet Do you have to get in close contact..."

"It's up there to live, we have to find out the power around him before we can start. I don't think this kid is a good bird. He knows that there is a problem with the source of the thing and he desperately buys it. Shit, look at him. His eyes must have regarded us as cultural relic thieves!"

The big man had a sinister smile on his face,

"It's good to be a thief of cultural relics. After this contact, if we meet again by chance next time, and we happen to have a batch of good things in our hands, I guess he will follow him no matter how far we let him run? Is the dragon the opponent of that military advisor..."

"Hmph, no matter how powerful it is, can it be stronger than a gun? It didn't say that he would live..."

Wu Di didn't go far, when the phone rang suddenly, he slapped his head suddenly after looking at the number, it was broken!Forget about it!

The call was from Zhou Jianxiong, the owner of Hong Kong Shuxiangmendi. When Wu Di went to Guatemala last time, he promised him to go to Hong Kong to trade Boss Song’s Dingyao child pillow in a week, but because of the master’s illness, he forgot about it. clean!

Hearing Wu Di's repeated apologies on the phone, Zhou Jianxiong scratched his head speechlessly, "My little master, why don't you just explain if you don't come?"It's as if I owe Lao Song something!

"Well, three days, no, four days at most, I will definitely arrive in Hong Kong! Please Boss Zhou, please say sorry to Mr. Song for me, and I will definitely serve you a drink to make amends when I go over."

After finalizing the itinerary for a few days later, Wu Di rushed to the military division and said with a wry smile:

"Military division, do you think my family would be safer if I kept running around every day?"

The military commander smiled slightly,

"Fifth brother, don't worry, since Mr. Chang promised you to solve it within a month, he will definitely solve it."

"But, they are in Japan, and there are so many killers, I can't bear to miss one!"

The military division smiled, what happened to more than 900 killers?Do you really think they are as mysterious as the ones on TV?Except for a very few people, they also cherish their lives, okay?What's more, as long as you can get rid of their old nest and kill a few backbones, I'm afraid the rest will never know that they still have actions against you, right?Not to mention that there is Matsushita Shiro's ** in the middle, and when the time comes, several masters will be called one by one, and the rest will be so scared that they dare not show their faces for the rest of their lives!

Wu Di was taken aback for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said:

"Hearing what you said, it really seems like this! But no matter what, I'm still worried."

"Fifth brother, the more normal we behave here, the smoother the plan of Mr. Chang will be carried out. If Matsushita Shiro cooperates sincerely, it will probably take less than a month before the trouble will be resolved, so..."

"So, I'd better pick up my leaks honestly! ***, I didn't expect that there would be a day when I would be forced to pick up my leaks!"

He swung his fist violently, since you are forcing me, then I will be impolite, Jade has not been able to kill all of them, what a leak, hum!

Wu Di strolled into an antique shop that mainly deals in Western antiques, and the habitual surname first glanced around.This store is not big, and the layout is very ordinary. All kinds of jewelry, clocks, gold and silverware occupy most of the counters in the store, and the remaining few large pieces of bronze ware and furniture are randomly thrown in a corner. It's like grandma doesn't love children that uncle doesn't love.

A fat old man with white beard and hair saw a guest coming, and greeted him with a pleasant smile. Wu Di said some polite words to him, and then walked towards the corner.He had noticed a strange thing there a long time ago, if it was real, it would be considered a good treasure.

What he saw was a clepsydra about half a meter high. Judging from its shape, it was definitely a Chinese antique. It was mixed with a pile of Western bronzes and furniture, and it stood out from the crowd.

The clepsydra is a kind of timekeeping device in ancient China. It is generally composed of two parts: a leaky pot and a leaky arrow, commonly known as "leak".There are scales on the leaky arrows, indicating the time of day and night, also known as engraved leaks.Because the shape of the leak was originally like a pot, it is also called a clepsydra.The timing of the leak is based on the continuous dripping of water from the hole of the pot and the reduction of the water stored in the pot, so it is also called a drip leak.

"Don't urge the silver pot with jade leakage", "The sound of leakage in five nights reminds the arrow of dawn", "the sound of golden furnace incense embers and leakage remains", and many poems related to leakage have been handed down. In the pens of these literati, the sound of leakage can It makes people feel the passing of time and the shortness of good times, with a hint of melancholy and a heavy voice.

But the shape of this one in this store is a bit funny. The body of the clepsydra is cylindrical, like a human body, with three hoof-shaped feet underneath.It's nothing, the key point is near the bottom of the device, the outlet pipe is connected to the position slightly above the two hoof-shaped feet, sticking out straight, like the one in heat!

Seeing that neither the military adviser nor the boss responded, Wu Di smiled contentedly and began to look carefully.There are double-layer handles on the top of the clepsydra, and there are three vertically symmetrical rectangular holes between the lid and the double-layer handles, which are used to place and straighten floating arrows.The word "Qianzhang" is cast on the inner bottom of this pot, and there is an inscription on the outside of the pot body: "One thousand chapter copper leak, weighing 3 catties, made in April of the second year of Heping." Zhongyang Copper Leakage" has 4 characters.

In the second year of Heping in the Western Han Dynasty, that is, BC, if this clepsydra is real, it is definitely a rare treasure.But looking at the position placed by the boss, it is obvious that he didn't take it seriously. This is an opportunity.

Wu Di moved a little bit, put his nose up and smelled it lightly, then stood up, and lifted the rusty clepsydra onto the square table beside him.

There are many ways to make bronzes old. People in ancient times knew to corrode them with acid and alkali, and then bury them in the ground and contact the soil to form rust.However, the fakes made by this method always have a special taste, and with the advancement of technology, they have been gradually eliminated.Now the process steps are much more complicated than that. Generally, they are pickled first, and then the patterns are drawn by hand, and then vulcanization, oxidation, acid-base low-voltage electroplating, concentrated soil chemical composition treatment and other complete processes are put into battle together to make bronzes. Each piece is rusty and simple, warm and realistic, not to mention ordinary lovers, even the so-called masters and experts, if you don't pay attention, you will be ashamed.

Wu Di's sniff just now is to rule out the ancient acid etching method first, and then to determine the authenticity of this thing through the observation and consideration of weight and rust.

Holding a magnifying glass, he looked and touched for a while, then he straightened up,

"Boss, how do you sell this one?"

"Twenty thousand euros, a high imitation of the bronze clepsydra of the Western Han Dynasty, can almost be fake!"

That's right, it's fake.Wu Di nodded with a smile, the real ones are sold as fakes by you, and you want to treat the fake ones as real ones to bluff people. The confusion between the real and the fake has won the three flavors of antique marketing!

Seeing that Wu Di just nodded and didn't speak, the boss chased after him again,

"Everything in this store is [-]% off**. Once the procedures are complete, there is absolutely no problem with customs clearance. You can purchase with confidence."

Wu Di nodded and asked the military adviser to negotiate the price with the boss slowly. If it can be lowered to [-] euros, it will be perfect.He himself was eyeing another strange thing.

This strange thing is a pair, if he remembers correctly, the name should be called wrong gold and silver dragon and phoenix car decoration.

Car decorations, as the name suggests, are things used to decorate carriages.Specific to this pair of things, it should be a pair of scale end decorations, which are decorations on both ends of the scale.

The scale is the crossbar at the end of the cart, and the shaft is the two straight logs in front of the cart for driving livestock.The mixed gold and silver is the process of using the "mud gold" dissolved by gold mixed with mercury to paint various intricate patterns on bronzes, or to coat them in pre-cast grooves.

The craftsmanship of this pair of car decorations is different from the painting method mentioned above. To be precise, it should be called the mosaic method.

The body of this pair of car decorations is cylindrical, and one end is sealed.The whole body of the utensil is made of gold and silver interlacing technology embedded with dragon and phoenix patterns. It is finely made, brilliant in color, and the gold and silver threads are as thin as a hair. It is a rare boutique.

The art of gold and silver in the painting method flourished in the Han Dynasty, and the mosaic method was even earlier. This piece should be something from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

"Boss, what are these two things? They look pretty good."

The boss had just negotiated the price with the military adviser, [-] euros, and when Wu Di asked him what the pair of accessories were called, he shook his head blankly.The guy who sold it to him didn't know what it was called, and the main reason he took it was because it was pretty and cheap.But after a simple inspection, he was sure that it was a pair of good things, because there were real gold and silver threads on it.

"I don't know what it is called, but the gold and silver on it are all real. This kind of thing that can be inlaid with gold and silver should be a very luxurious thing in ancient times, so it is very rare and very precious."

Wu Di frowned, the logic is correct, it is very rare, so rare that many people can't recognize it.However, if you judge something like this, how can I pick up the leak?

"That pair is more expensive than this one, sixty thousand euros."

Sixty thousand?It's four times more expensive, so why not ask for a little more?Wu Di found out that he was involved by himself. If he had told the boss that this was an insignificant ornament on the carriage from the beginning, wouldn't it be better to negotiate the price? (To be continued.)